Actually, the most likely thing they wanted to do was swab it for drugs. My sister was a Canadian border guard, and if they had any suspicion that you might be carrying drugs or similar, they'd take an item of yours (ID, phone, etc...) into the back room and swab it to check for the presence of an elevated amount of narcotics. If they found it, that would cause them to do a more thorough search.
But in-building coax won't work with two cable ISPs unless you lay down two parallel coax networks.
No reason why you couldn't have different cable ISPs on different frequencies on the one cable. This is just another reason why the content and internet service should be completely severed from the company operating the physical plant. Yeah, your physical plant (either twisted pair, coax, or fiber) is a natural monopoly. There's no reason why the content and/or internet service has to be.
I know it's silly, but the thing I would most like to see improved in MacOS is the print dialog.
All hail Clarus the Docgow! Moof!
In all seriousness though, that one little icon did wonders to tell you how you were manipulating the page as per the print dialog... much better than what's on there now.
Both Iridium and Orbcomm are truly global systems. Iridium satellites are in 86.9 degree orbits, and with 66 of them in active service, they provide pole to pole coverage. In fact, some of the early phones had a firmware bug that would cause them to get all confused in polar regions because they had so many satellites to choose from, and Iridium only allows hand-off between satellites going in the same general direction. Not a problem in most of the world, but at the poles, yes.
The only place where there may be issues with Iridium is over China, but that's due to licensing and legal restrictions placed by the government there, not due to any technical reason.
What you're probably thinking about is Globalstar, which is not global in reach. With Globalstar, your handset/earth station must be within single-hop distance to one of their earth-based gateways (Ie the satellite must be able to see you and a gateway at the same time). This means there is a large coverage gap in the mid pacific ocean.
Because Iridium uses inter-satellite links, all civilian traffic downlinks through their gateway in Tempe Arizona, and DoD downlinks through an earth station in Hawaii. If you make an Iridium to Iridium call, there is a good chance that it will get routed directly through the satellite constellation and never go through Tempe (or Hawaii).
Or should a rich person deny public access to a public beach because they're rich?
This is why I'm glad to live in a country where no private individual can own the land below the maximum normal extent of water. For ocean beaches, this means that all people have access to the beach below the high-high tide mark, unless there is an explicit foreshore lease for something like a port or Navy base.
What he didn't tell you is that is usually diesel.
The organization I work with actually has a tank that is dual compartment; one side for gasoline the other side for diesel. Gasoline is used to fill up the small generators, lawn mowers, and other similar small power equipment. The diesel side is in case someone does something stupid and forgets to fill up one of our busses, bulldozers, or the backhoe when they're outside of town.
This is actually pretty common, there are a number of manufacturers that produce truck-bed fuel tanks intended for refuelling other vehicles, you just don't often see them in the city. They're used for transporting fuel to construction sites (it's not like someone is going to drive that skid steer to the nearest gas station to fill up every 8 hours), and also not uncommon for those who enjoy power "sports" (Skidoos, ATVs, etc...).
The whole issue of spillage can also be mitigated with appropriate materials. I own a small (27') sailboat with a diesel engine. When we fill our tank up, you have to pass the fuel nozzle over the water and into the cockpit. When you do this, it's always done with the nozzle pointing up, and wrapped in a sheet of oilsorb. Spilling into the ocean is generally a much worse offence than dripping a bit onto asphalt (which is already a petrochemical product).
Basically, as long as the companies doing this are well regulated, and follow procedures, I don't see the issue. Would I ever use it? No, especially because I doubt they haul diesel around for my TDI, and I'm also enough of a cheapskate that I wouldn't want to pay the premium.
Relatedly, around here at least (Vancouver, BC), I see a number of services that do this with a 2000 gallon tank on the back of a 5 ton truck. They go from construction site to construction site refuelling all the equipment on-site.
I spent 15 years in school to earn the right to exercise a profession where I handle people's lives daily, and I certainly don't make 4000 Euro per afternoon. There is more than one kind of dishonesty.
Ok, lets turn this around. Let's say this photographer took a series of photographs for an architecture firm, and sold them at $250 each for wall use only rights. The architecture firm then turns around and uses those photographs as a key part of a portfolio that helps them win a $4,000,000 design contract, which is not permitted by the license. It's pretty clear that the photographer has a right to claim a portion of that fee.
Because for something like that, the photographer would charge something like $25,000 instead of $250/image. If you're just going to use it as a photo in a frame in your office, or say as an advertising poster in your elevators, you're not going to pay the photographer what he would demand to hand over the copyright.
It seems like "predatory licensing" knowing that they would likely be abused and therefore lead to a lawsuit.
This is pretty common in commercial photography. A good friend of mine is an architectural photographer, and on top of the fixed fees for showing up, and expenses, each image he produces is licensed to the client individually, or sometimes as a group (say if they're going for a building award). The terms of these licenses are highly variable, and depend on the needs/desires and budgets of the client. If the building developer just wants to hang a picture on their wall, they will typically just go for say a 3 year wall-use only license. That's relatively inexpensive, and soon enough they're going to want to replace the photo with their next project anyway. Conversely, fi they want to have it written up in a magazine or whatever, that's a significantly higher license cost, and again needs to be negotiated.
If the photographer doesn't agree to the terms, then find another photographer, which should take about five minutes.
Being a good architectural photographer is a pretty rare skill. In most major markets there are usually only 2 or 3 who you would really trust to be able to produce photos of the calibre described. It's not just a matter of snapping a couple of shots and picking the best ones. It's a whole process of picking the exact right spot to take the picture, getting the lighting just right (either by modifying existing building lighting, adding additional lighting, etc...), ensuring the composition puts the space in its best light, adding little staging elements (or de-cluttering) etc...
In most major markets, there are usually only a handful of people that would be trusted and capable of doing this kind of work. They will all have similar rates, and similar licensing terms. You can always negotiate to have the IP handed over (or be basically given an unlimited/unrestricted license) but you'll pay through the nose. The usual deal is the cost per image depends on the final use of said image. If it's just going to be hung in a frame on an architect's wall, that's pretty cheap, say $250/image. Awards entry? $2500 for the package. Printed in Architectural Record? the sky's the limit. It's really about the photographer and the client coming to an agreement where they both benefit optimally from the process.
you can easily make meals by dumping a few ingredients together with 15 minutes prep on the weekend or day off
A lot of the working poor are working 2 or 3 jobs, just to make rent and utilities. They don't get weekends or days off. This is what happens when people can't make a living wage at 40 hours/week.
Because large precision devices are expensive, take a long time to build, so there's no economies of scale. The mirror onboard the Hubble is a highly precise piece of glass (it's precisely incorrect, but precise non the less), and building large telescope mirrors is tough.
Sorry, no, the Lagrange points are all out beyond the orbit of the moon, dead satellites will certainly never migrate that far way from the earth. Secondly, the only two stable ones are about 1/3 ahead and behind us in our orbit around the sun.
Depends on how high they are. Above about 500km or so, the residual atmosphere is thin enough that it will take decades for something to decay. Above around 1500km or so, the decay time is measured in millennia.
For example, the Hubble Space Telescope does not have thruster systems (the exhaust would damage the optics, so it wouldn't be able to use them anyway. One of the tasks of the servicing missions was re-boosting it to a higher orbit.
The biggest issue is all the exceptions they've managed to weasel in. I don't care if I have a business relationship with you, or if you're a political party, or a charity, or whatever else. I still don't want you to advertise to me, that's why I put my number on the damned registry. That should be a clue that I do not take kindly to people calling me trying to sell me things. The only time I want to hear from my ISP, or bank, is if there is a problem with my account, or some other similar threat.
It wasn't until the trans atlantic telephone cables that they had to put amplifiers at the bottom of the sea. The first telegraph cables were nothing more than a long insulated wire, spliced together. The first cables were laid by the SS Great Eastern, which was one of the largest ships of her era, and she could carry enough cable, coiled in her holds, to complete the entire run between the UK and Newfoundland.
The first cables were run between the UK and Newfoundland, which is about the shortest distance possible across the Atlantic. The process of storing it on the ship is actually not a whole lot different than it is today; in the ship's hold they constructed giant drums and coiled the cable up in it. As the ship moved along through the Atlantic, it was played out the back. The cable itself is actually not all that thick, so you can store an incredible amount in a ship's hold. Also, it's not spooled up in the traditional sense, as getting that much mass moving would be problematic and dangerous. Instead it was coiled, probably in an over-under type fashion to keep the twist out, and then it could just pull off the top of the drum.
SOFIA is a magnificent instrument and a crazy aircraft with fantastic capabilities, but the 747 it's based in can't keep up with an eclipse. The thing that has always impressed me with SOFIA is how they manage to open a door that large, at speed, without the aerodynamic forces ripping the aircraft apart. The Engineers who built that have some serious chops.
You can't go from 6 decades of isolation to thinking US style Capitalism isn't going to fuck up the place if you try to do it overnight.
Uhmm, Cuba was only isolated by the United States for the last 6 decades. Other countries have been doing business with them for a very long time.
Back in 2006 I was sent to Guantanamo Bay for a week-long contract. As I was walking into the Navy Exchange to grab some beer, my blackberry rang, I picked it up and answered, and everyone around me looked at me like I was from Mars. It dawned on me at that point that I probably had the only working cell phone on base, since as a Canadian (with a Canadian service contract), my phone had no trouble roaming onto the Cuban cell network.
Yeah, it was only GPRS, but for text email on a Blackberry it was still better than two rocks to bang together.
In regards to WAAS, I think you're talking about something else. WAAS was developed for the FAA to allow the use of GPS in all stages of flight, including precision landing.
It's based on a network of high precision ground receivers which are used to calculate two sets of correction information. The first is intended for all receivers in the WAAS footprint (basically North America), and consists of estimates of the error in the satellite position, and clock errors. The other breaks the continent up into a grid, and provides local estimates for errors in the ephemeris, clock errors, and ionospheric delay.
With a good GPS fix, the receiver should throw out the 13 microsecond delayed data as being anomalous. If you only had a 3 satellite fix though, it could cause a significant positioning error.
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Actually, the most likely thing they wanted to do was swab it for drugs. My sister was a Canadian border guard, and if they had any suspicion that you might be carrying drugs or similar, they'd take an item of yours (ID, phone, etc...) into the back room and swab it to check for the presence of an elevated amount of narcotics. If they found it, that would cause them to do a more thorough search.
But in-building coax won't work with two cable ISPs unless you lay down two parallel coax networks.
No reason why you couldn't have different cable ISPs on different frequencies on the one cable. This is just another reason why the content and internet service should be completely severed from the company operating the physical plant. Yeah, your physical plant (either twisted pair, coax, or fiber) is a natural monopoly. There's no reason why the content and/or internet service has to be.
It's hard to be certain which of what he says is a lie
This is easy. If his mouth is open it's a lie.
Hah... I stick to AppleMumble er Talk...
I know it's silly, but the thing I would most like to see improved in MacOS is the print dialog.
All hail Clarus the Docgow! Moof!
In all seriousness though, that one little icon did wonders to tell you how you were manipulating the page as per the print dialog... much better than what's on there now.
Both Iridium and Orbcomm are truly global systems. Iridium satellites are in 86.9 degree orbits, and with 66 of them in active service, they provide pole to pole coverage. In fact, some of the early phones had a firmware bug that would cause them to get all confused in polar regions because they had so many satellites to choose from, and Iridium only allows hand-off between satellites going in the same general direction. Not a problem in most of the world, but at the poles, yes.
The only place where there may be issues with Iridium is over China, but that's due to licensing and legal restrictions placed by the government there, not due to any technical reason.
What you're probably thinking about is Globalstar, which is not global in reach. With Globalstar, your handset/earth station must be within single-hop distance to one of their earth-based gateways (Ie the satellite must be able to see you and a gateway at the same time). This means there is a large coverage gap in the mid pacific ocean.
Because Iridium uses inter-satellite links, all civilian traffic downlinks through their gateway in Tempe Arizona, and DoD downlinks through an earth station in Hawaii. If you make an Iridium to Iridium call, there is a good chance that it will get routed directly through the satellite constellation and never go through Tempe (or Hawaii).
Or should a rich person deny public access to a public beach because they're rich?
This is why I'm glad to live in a country where no private individual can own the land below the maximum normal extent of water. For ocean beaches, this means that all people have access to the beach below the high-high tide mark, unless there is an explicit foreshore lease for something like a port or Navy base.
What he didn't tell you is that is usually diesel.
The organization I work with actually has a tank that is dual compartment; one side for gasoline the other side for diesel. Gasoline is used to fill up the small generators, lawn mowers, and other similar small power equipment. The diesel side is in case someone does something stupid and forgets to fill up one of our busses, bulldozers, or the backhoe when they're outside of town.
Not in a pickup truck though....
This is actually pretty common, there are a number of manufacturers that produce truck-bed fuel tanks intended for refuelling other vehicles, you just don't often see them in the city. They're used for transporting fuel to construction sites (it's not like someone is going to drive that skid steer to the nearest gas station to fill up every 8 hours), and also not uncommon for those who enjoy power "sports" (Skidoos, ATVs, etc...).
The whole issue of spillage can also be mitigated with appropriate materials. I own a small (27') sailboat with a diesel engine. When we fill our tank up, you have to pass the fuel nozzle over the water and into the cockpit. When you do this, it's always done with the nozzle pointing up, and wrapped in a sheet of oilsorb. Spilling into the ocean is generally a much worse offence than dripping a bit onto asphalt (which is already a petrochemical product).
Basically, as long as the companies doing this are well regulated, and follow procedures, I don't see the issue. Would I ever use it? No, especially because I doubt they haul diesel around for my TDI, and I'm also enough of a cheapskate that I wouldn't want to pay the premium.
Relatedly, around here at least (Vancouver, BC), I see a number of services that do this with a 2000 gallon tank on the back of a 5 ton truck. They go from construction site to construction site refuelling all the equipment on-site.
I spent 15 years in school to earn the right to exercise a profession where I handle people's lives daily, and I certainly don't make 4000 Euro per afternoon. There is more than one kind of dishonesty.
Ok, lets turn this around. Let's say this photographer took a series of photographs for an architecture firm, and sold them at $250 each for wall use only rights. The architecture firm then turns around and uses those photographs as a key part of a portfolio that helps them win a $4,000,000 design contract, which is not permitted by the license. It's pretty clear that the photographer has a right to claim a portion of that fee.
Because for something like that, the photographer would charge something like $25,000 instead of $250/image. If you're just going to use it as a photo in a frame in your office, or say as an advertising poster in your elevators, you're not going to pay the photographer what he would demand to hand over the copyright.
It seems like "predatory licensing" knowing that they would likely be abused and therefore lead to a lawsuit.
This is pretty common in commercial photography. A good friend of mine is an architectural photographer, and on top of the fixed fees for showing up, and expenses, each image he produces is licensed to the client individually, or sometimes as a group (say if they're going for a building award). The terms of these licenses are highly variable, and depend on the needs/desires and budgets of the client. If the building developer just wants to hang a picture on their wall, they will typically just go for say a 3 year wall-use only license. That's relatively inexpensive, and soon enough they're going to want to replace the photo with their next project anyway. Conversely, fi they want to have it written up in a magazine or whatever, that's a significantly higher license cost, and again needs to be negotiated.
If the photographer doesn't agree to the terms, then find another photographer, which should take about five minutes.
Being a good architectural photographer is a pretty rare skill. In most major markets there are usually only 2 or 3 who you would really trust to be able to produce photos of the calibre described. It's not just a matter of snapping a couple of shots and picking the best ones. It's a whole process of picking the exact right spot to take the picture, getting the lighting just right (either by modifying existing building lighting, adding additional lighting, etc...), ensuring the composition puts the space in its best light, adding little staging elements (or de-cluttering) etc...
In most major markets, there are usually only a handful of people that would be trusted and capable of doing this kind of work. They will all have similar rates, and similar licensing terms. You can always negotiate to have the IP handed over (or be basically given an unlimited/unrestricted license) but you'll pay through the nose. The usual deal is the cost per image depends on the final use of said image. If it's just going to be hung in a frame on an architect's wall, that's pretty cheap, say $250/image. Awards entry? $2500 for the package. Printed in Architectural Record? the sky's the limit. It's really about the photographer and the client coming to an agreement where they both benefit optimally from the process.
you can easily make meals by dumping a few ingredients together with 15 minutes prep on the weekend or day off
A lot of the working poor are working 2 or 3 jobs, just to make rent and utilities. They don't get weekends or days off. This is what happens when people can't make a living wage at 40 hours/week.
Because large precision devices are expensive, take a long time to build, so there's no economies of scale. The mirror onboard the Hubble is a highly precise piece of glass (it's precisely incorrect, but precise non the less), and building large telescope mirrors is tough.
Sorry, no, the Lagrange points are all out beyond the orbit of the moon, dead satellites will certainly never migrate that far way from the earth. Secondly, the only two stable ones are about 1/3 ahead and behind us in our orbit around the sun.
Depends on how high they are. Above about 500km or so, the residual atmosphere is thin enough that it will take decades for something to decay. Above around 1500km or so, the decay time is measured in millennia.
For example, the Hubble Space Telescope does not have thruster systems (the exhaust would damage the optics, so it wouldn't be able to use them anyway. One of the tasks of the servicing missions was re-boosting it to a higher orbit.
The biggest issue is all the exceptions they've managed to weasel in. I don't care if I have a business relationship with you, or if you're a political party, or a charity, or whatever else. I still don't want you to advertise to me, that's why I put my number on the damned registry. That should be a clue that I do not take kindly to people calling me trying to sell me things. The only time I want to hear from my ISP, or bank, is if there is a problem with my account, or some other similar threat.
My 8 year old Sharp LCD still works fine. Displays 1080p material just fine.
It wasn't until the trans atlantic telephone cables that they had to put amplifiers at the bottom of the sea. The first telegraph cables were nothing more than a long insulated wire, spliced together. The first cables were laid by the SS Great Eastern, which was one of the largest ships of her era, and she could carry enough cable, coiled in her holds, to complete the entire run between the UK and Newfoundland.
The first cables were run between the UK and Newfoundland, which is about the shortest distance possible across the Atlantic. The process of storing it on the ship is actually not a whole lot different than it is today; in the ship's hold they constructed giant drums and coiled the cable up in it. As the ship moved along through the Atlantic, it was played out the back. The cable itself is actually not all that thick, so you can store an incredible amount in a ship's hold. Also, it's not spooled up in the traditional sense, as getting that much mass moving would be problematic and dangerous. Instead it was coiled, probably in an over-under type fashion to keep the twist out, and then it could just pull off the top of the drum.
SOFIA is a magnificent instrument and a crazy aircraft with fantastic capabilities, but the 747 it's based in can't keep up with an eclipse. The thing that has always impressed me with SOFIA is how they manage to open a door that large, at speed, without the aerodynamic forces ripping the aircraft apart. The Engineers who built that have some serious chops.
You can't go from 6 decades of isolation to thinking US style Capitalism isn't going to fuck up the place if you try to do it overnight.
Uhmm, Cuba was only isolated by the United States for the last 6 decades. Other countries have been doing business with them for a very long time.
Back in 2006 I was sent to Guantanamo Bay for a week-long contract. As I was walking into the Navy Exchange to grab some beer, my blackberry rang, I picked it up and answered, and everyone around me looked at me like I was from Mars. It dawned on me at that point that I probably had the only working cell phone on base, since as a Canadian (with a Canadian service contract), my phone had no trouble roaming onto the Cuban cell network.
Yeah, it was only GPRS, but for text email on a Blackberry it was still better than two rocks to bang together.
In regards to WAAS, I think you're talking about something else. WAAS was developed for the FAA to allow the use of GPS in all stages of flight, including precision landing.
It's based on a network of high precision ground receivers which are used to calculate two sets of correction information. The first is intended for all receivers in the WAAS footprint (basically North America), and consists of estimates of the error in the satellite position, and clock errors. The other breaks the continent up into a grid, and provides local estimates for errors in the ephemeris, clock errors, and ionospheric delay.
With a good GPS fix, the receiver should throw out the 13 microsecond delayed data as being anomalous. If you only had a 3 satellite fix though, it could cause a significant positioning error.